Our Appreciation

To LEON BURR RICHARDSON 'OO our grateful thanks for the splendid biography of President Hopkins carried in these pages this month. It is a brief biography in terms of the material available for the biographer, but it is something more than a sketch. The 14,000 words represent a tremendous labor of research and sorting and writing to produce a concise and ye complete story that could easily fill tw volumes. The editors first planned to publish the biography in three installmentsin this and the subsequent May and June numbers. But there is too much interest among Dartmouth men, and the task is too well done, to ask readers to delay for weeks their completion of this feature article which the editor read at one sitting, and with great pleasure. So it is all here this month—in our opinion the finest thing ever published by your MAGAZINE.

And we are delighted to welcome Mr. Philip S. Marden '94 back to our columns as guest editorial writer. He was formerly an associate editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Older alumni—and not so old at that —will recall his meaty and readable discussions of College matters in these editorial columns, done in a highly literary style.